{"id":1328,"date":"2012-06-03T09:26:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2013-06-28T10:25:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:25:52","slug":"venice-in-a-day-and-for-a-week-later-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Venice in a Day&#8230;And for a Week Later this Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this video by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niggli.com\/\">Joerg Niggli<\/a> while checking in on <a href=\"http:\/\/switchboard.nrdc.org\/blogs\/kbenfield\/managing_traffic_or_not_on_the.html\">Kaid Benfield<\/a>\u2019s blog, who had come across it while checking in on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanophile.com\/2012\/05\/02\/venice-in-a-day\/\">The Urbanophile<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201cVenice in A Day\u201d:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/40977797\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ve visited Venice before, as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_tour\">Grand Tour<\/a> honeymoon in 1996.\u00a0 Happily, I\u2019ll be re-visiting the city later this month for a Seminar on \u201cIntercultural Urban Planning and Placemaking.\u201d The seminar is sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/t\/dg4\/cultureheritage\/culture\/Cities\/Default_en.asp\">Council of Europe\u2019s Intercultural Cities Programme<\/a> and will be held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuav.it\/English-Ve\/About-Iuav\/Iuav-profi\/index.htm\">Universit\u00e0 IUAV di Venezia<\/a>, 21\/22 June 2012.\u00a0 From the seminar\u2019s preliminary\u00a0 program:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We shape our cities and our cities shape us.\u00a0 Europe\u2019s towns and cities are now more diverse in terms of ethnicity, language and religion than they have ever been, and the trend is upwards.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Intercultural Cities project is predicated on the belief that this presents not a threat but an opportunity, but that cities must be smart and strategic if they are to realize this diversity advantage. Our streets, squares, parks, markets and public buildings will be the places where strangers are most likely to encounter one another, so the people who plan, design, build and manage them have an important responsibility. An ill-considered public space can discourage conviviality or even exacerbate tension. However, there are now many examples of urban spaces that are welcoming, reassuring and stimulating, which enhance our natural curiosity and sociability and help to build a sense of intercultural familiarity and citizenship. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The seminar will be a meeting of leading academics and practitioners from cities within the Intercultural Cities network. The aim of this unprecedented event is to highlight and share some best practice principles and practices which will lead to positive innovations in our European urban spaces.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_1329\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maziarh\/911235130\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1329\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1329 \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IUAV.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IUAV.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IUAV-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Universit\u00e0 IUAV di Venezia (Mused&#8217;s Photostream, flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Venice is a <a href=\"http:\/\/subversiveurbanism.tumblr.com\/post\/20114113179\/the-subversive-urbanism-of-venice\">perfect choice of location<\/a>\u00a0for these conversations, as is The Universit\u00e0 IUAV di Venezia. \u00a0This is from the University\u2019s promotional material:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The IUAV has three faculties \u2013 Architecture, Regional Planning, and Arts and Design \u2013all of which have grown out of the original School of Architecture (founded in Venice in 1926). In recent years the IUAV has implemented a unique experiment in \u201cproject-based learning\u201d that is the first of its kind in Italy. Theory and technique are integrated with hands-on training that spans the entire planning and design process, from the conception of an idea all the way through to its realization\u2026 <\/em>[The IUAV]<em> is the only university in Italy entirely devoted to teaching the planning and design of everything related to the spaces and environments in which we live: buildings, cities and landscapes; objects of daily use and graphics; cultural, theatrical and multimedia events.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m very grateful to <a href=\"http:\/\/philwood.eu\/#\/biography\/4537956878\">Phil Wood<\/a> for inviting me to participate in the Intercultural Placemaking seminar. \u00a0And, I\u2019m grateful to Mr. Niggli for his fine putting-in-the-mood video.\u00a0 A calendar of other Council of Europe Intercultural Cities meetings in 2012 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/t\/dg4\/cultureheritage\/Culture\/Calendar2012_en.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this video by Joerg Niggli while checking in on Kaid Benfield\u2019s blog, who had come across it while checking in on The Urbanophile.\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201cVenice in A Day\u201d: I\u2019ve visited Venice before, as part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intercultural-city","category-urban-studies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1H2bI-lq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}